Living a Real Life

Paramahansa Yogananda says," Have only two real ambitions in life. The first is to known God and the second is to play your part on earth as His perfect child. Virtually, the first ambition to know God is important as once it happens, the other one automatically follows.

Knowing God is a real challenge of our lives. Although the word God is with us ,in one form or the other from the time we become conscious of our lives on earth yet whole of life we hardly understand even the real concept of it. Only superficially we take His name or use Him where needed for our selfish ends.

Lord Krishna says in Bhagvad Gita (Verse 3 Chapter 7) that hardly one among thousand makes effort to seek Me and out of such one thousand only one knows Me. This is the hard truth of our lives. We have never made any real efforts to seek and know Him. It is a pity that the One who has given us our very lives and with whose energy we only live on earth gets our meagre attention.

Every sincere effort needs a determination and a will to succeed. It is hard to know God without a sincere yearning and help of a realised soul who has already found Him.

In practice this becomes difficult as one can hardly find a true person/guru to lead. There are,however, organised Societies like Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, Ramakrishna Mission, Art of Living, etc. Such organisations are very helpful in putting one into regular routine of doing Sadhnas besides your daily duties to earn your living and greatly help you in seeking God.

God is simple and everything else is complex, says Paramahansa Yogananda in his Autobiography of a Yogi. The call is to Arise and Awake and do your part on earth.